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Policy Versus Politics: Recent Trends in Textbooks on Latin American Politics

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THEORIES OF DEVELOPMENT AND UNDERDEVELOPMENT. By CHILCOTERONALD H. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1984. Pp. 178. $25.00 cloth, $12.95 paper.)

POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA. By HUGHESSTEVEN W. and MIJESKIKENNETH J. (Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1985. Pp. 256. $32.50 cloth, $13.95 paper.)

PUBLIC POLICY IN LATIN AMERICA. By SLOANJOHN W. (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1984. Pp. 276. $25.95 cloth, $12.95 paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 October 2022

Susan C. Bourque*
Affiliation:
Smith College
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Copyright © 1987 by the University of Texas Press

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Notes

1. See Max Weber, “Politics as a Vocation,” in From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. translated and edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright Mills (London: Oxford University Press, 1953), 123.

2. For recent efforts, see David G. Becker, “Recent Political Development in Peru: Dependency or Postdependency?,” LARR 19, no. 2 (1984):225–42.; and Stephen G. Bunker, “Debt and Democratization: Changing Perspectives on the Brazilian State,” LARR 21, no. 3 (1986):206–23.

3. Arturo Valenzuela, “Political Science and the Study of Latin America,” paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association meeting, Albuquerque, April 1984.